00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-1685594773861295826 Buklod 20070906150848.0 i|||||||||||||| | ta 160128s1976 caua r |||| u|eng d 0803906544 (iLib)UPBAG-00000015511 DLC BAG rda eng H 61 A75 Asher, Herbert B. author. Causal modeling Herbert B. Asher. Beverly Hills, Calif. Sage Publications ©1976. 80 pages illustrations 22 cm Quantitative applications in the social sciences ser. no. 07-003 Includes bibliographical references (pages 72-75). 1. Introduction -- Overview -- Two uses of causal modeling -- Causal theorizing and problem formulation -- Causal data analysis -- The notion of of causality -- Definitions and notation -- 2. The work of Simon and Blalock -- Overview -- Simon and spurious correlation -- The Simon-Blalock technique -- The basic technique -- Assumptions of the Simon-Blalock technique -- Cost-benefits analysis of the Simon-Blalock technique -- 3. Recursive and nonrecursive path estimation -- Recursive path analysis -- Obtaining the path estimates -- Advantages of path analysis -- Substantive application of path analysis -- The formal interpretation of path coefficient -- Overidentification in recursive models -- Additional problems in path analysis -- Identification and nonrecursive estimation -- An intuitive look at identification -- Identification in recursive systems -- Identification in nonrecursive systems -- Nonrecursive estimation and levels of identification -- Summation -- 4. Conclusions -- Some additional concerns -- Measurement error -- Treating ordinal data as interval -- Summation. Social sciences Mathematical models. Social sciences Statistical methods. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN H 61 A75 Book